Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves

Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves is a tribute album released in 1982 remembering the music of country stars Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves who were both killed in plane crashes in the early 1960s. It was released by MCA Records. A similar album called Greatest Hits of Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline had been released the previous year by RCA Records.

Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves
Compilation album by
Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves
Released1982
GenreCountry
Length27:15
LabelMCA
ProducerChet Atkins, Owen Bradley, Bob Ferguson
Patsy Cline chronology
Greatest Hits of Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline
(1981)		 Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves
(1982)		 Today, Tomorrow, and Forever
(1985)
Jim Reeves chronology
Greatest Hits of Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline
(1981)		 Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves
(1982)		 The Jim Reeves Medley
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Background

The album contains popular hit singles by both artists on each side of the album. However the first Jim Reeves track, I Fall to Pieces was overdubbed with Patsy Cline's version to form a duet. This was possible only because in Nashville's early 60's music scene when both hits were recorded, both Chet Atkins at RCA and Owen Bradley at Decca had access to then-brand-new 3-track mastering recorders. In this format, the orchestra was recorded on one track, the backup singers on another track, and the lead vocal on the third. This recording setup was intended for mixdown to mono in the end.

Owen Bradley had been approached by Jim Reeves' widow, Mary Reeves Davis, with the idea of creating Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline duets. With the approval of the Cline estate, as well as both RCA Records and MCA Records, work on the project began. In early 1981, Owen simply played the original 3-track tapes and recorded both Patsy's and Jim's isolated vocals onto a 24-track tape. As the two performances were recorded a semitone apart in key, subsequently, at Music City Music Hall in Nashville (the former RCA Studio A), engineers matched the keys for the two vocals, edited it all down and recorded the final onto still another 24-track tape onto which they added new orchestration, new backing tracks and remixed for stereo. RCA's similar album, Greatest Hits of Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline

As the original Decca label with which Cline had been affiliated had since been merged with MCA, six Patsy Cline songs and five Jim Reeves songs are featured on that album, plus the duet. Jim Reeves had been affiliated with RCA, so the RCA album has the reverse — six Jim Reeves hits and five Patsy Cline hits, plus a duet of Have You Ever Been Lonely?, produced during the same sessions as the duet for I Fall to Pieces.

The songs were both released as a single from the albums in question. Have You Ever Been Lonely? charted at #5 in 1982 and I Fall to Pieces charted at #54 the same year. Each was the only song overdubbed on its respective album.

The tracks recorded by Cline (including the duet) were produced by Decca/MCA's Owen Bradley, Cline's original record producer. Reeves' recordings were produced by RCA's Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson on Side One of the album, while the recordings on Side Two were produced by Chet alone. The album was digitally remastered and issued on CD in 1988.[2]

In 1997 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for a shipment of over 500,000 copies in the United States.[3]

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Performer(s)Length
1."I Fall to Pieces" (duet)Hank Cochran, Harlan HowardPatsy Cline & Jim Reeves2:48
2."So Wrong"Danny Dill, Carl Perkins, Mel TillisPatsy Cline3:00
3."Misty Moonlight"Cindy WalkerJim Reeves2:01
4."Back in Baby's Arms"Bobby MontgomeryPatsy Cline2:06
5."Missing You"Dale Noe, Red SovineJim Reeves2:39
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)PerformerLength
1."Walkin' After Midnight"Alan Block, Don HechtPatsy Cline1:57
2."The Blizzard"Harlan HowardJim Reeves3:25
3."Why Can't He Be You"Hank CochranPatsy Cline3:30
4."Distant Drums"Cindy WalkerJim Reeves2:55
5."Leavin' on Your Mind"Webb Pierce, Wayne WalkerPatsy Cline2:27

Personnel

Background vocals

Chart positions

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1982 "I Fall to Pieces" Country Singles 54
Canadian Country RPM singles 41

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves profile". patsycline.info. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
  3. "RIAA Gold & Platinum - Remembering". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
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